 yourself. To me the most beautiful couplet in the English language is— "' Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.' "None of us can live up to this noble lesson of life fully;  The Life of Schuyler Colfax - Página 177por Ambrose Yoemans Moore - 1868 - 370 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1892 - 302 páginas
...far beyond the satisfaction of an expanding balance in bank or a growing hoard of stocks and bonds. " Count that day lost, whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done ; " if you do, you may be sure that no daywill be lost, but will be counted among your great gains.... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - 1814 - 254 páginas
...A woman of true fenfe, will be always ambitious not of gaining admiration, but of defervir.g it. , Count that day lost, whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done. Of all the virtues, there are none ought more to be inculcated into the mind of... | |
 | Titus Strong - 1819 - 248 páginas
...MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS. Ksow then this truth, enough for man to know, Virtue alone is happiness below. Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done. All forms that perish other forms supply; By turns we catch the vital breath and... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1835 - 312 páginas
...loved the girl as I now hope to love her, that is, if she will love me—as a brother. CHAPTER II. " Count that day lost, whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done." " It seems strange our children should be so perverse; we have always given them... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1835 - 324 páginas
...loved the girl as I now hope to love her, that is, if she will love me—as a brother. CHAPTER II. " Count that day lost, whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done." " It seems strange our children should be so perverse; we have always given them... | |
 | Ohio. Department of Education - 1876 - 386 páginas
...writing class Ï Why f 3. Analyze Q, L, a, h. 4. Write the following as a specimen of your writing : "Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done." 1. What is phonology ! ORTHOGRAPHY. 2. State the difference between orthographic... | |
 | Moses Ballou - 1850 - 266 páginas
...Year, than I have been during the old one. I will try to keep the words of the poet in mind : » ' Count that day lost, whose low descending sun Views from thy hand, no worthy action done."" For the three months following he was, as usual, very diligently employed in... | |
 | Moses Ballou - 1850 - 262 páginas
...New Year, than I have been during the old one. I will try to keep the words of the poet in mind : ' Count that day lost, whose low descending sun Views from thy hand, no worthy action done.' " For the three months following he was, as usual, very diligently employed in... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1853 - 344 páginas
...Rei'iew. THE LOST SABBATH. " THE lost sabbath! How could a sabbath be lost?" we seem to hear one say. •" Count that day lost, whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done," is the language of the poet. But a sabbath lost is a greater loss, as much greater... | |
 | 1855 - 488 páginas
...let slip one day without doing good, he entered upon his diary this memorial: " I have lost a day." Count that day lost, whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done. We read in the Scriptures, that Boaz, in the midst of riches, was laborious, diligent... | |
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